PT-2019-7545 · Cjson · Cjson

Marco Grassi · Published 2019-04-29 · Updated 2025-07-22 · CVE-2016-10749

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions cJSON versions prior to 2016-10-02

Description The issue is related to a buffer over-read in the parse string function in cJSON.c. This occurs when processing a string that starts with a " character and ends with a character.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2016-10-02, update to a version released after 2016-10-02 to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-10749

Affected Products

Cjson

References · 7

• 🔥 https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/issues/30 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/07/2 · Exploit
• https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/commit/94df772485c92866ca417d92137747b2e3b0a917 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10749 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10749 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cveNotify/129863 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/129863 · Telegram Post